Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 11
The first born was a girl, to whom she gave the name of Aro, and the second was a boy, whom she named Agbor.
Who acts: first born girl, second, girl · What happens: bear, be, give, name · To what, where: first born girl, name, boy, Aro
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, E. Dayrell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first born girl, second, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 girl | amod |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 girl | amod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 girl | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 whom | case |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 gave | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 name | det |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Aro | case |
| 15 | Aro | Aro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 name | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 boy | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 boy | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 second | det |
| 19 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 boy | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 boy | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 boy | det |
| 22 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 named | punct |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 named | obj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 named | nsubj |
| 26 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 boy | acl:relcl |
| 27 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 named | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the first born girl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the first born girl | the name of Aro | whom obl; girl nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to whom=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is a | past | the second | a boy | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | name | past | girl | a boy | Agbor xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | |||
| 6 | name | Aro | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Project Gutenberg book 70959 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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